@cleverogre Yeppers, helmet saved me while cycling... hit and run. I was flying in the air 30 feet and rolled another 30 feet and got up screaming! Bicycle was a total loss I wasn't! Next day and for a couple weeks crazy sore but helmet saved my head. btw looks like that guy should have been wearing his helmet more forward! Many wear helmets too loose and they don't protect the forehead.
@fjp999 cycling (off-road) for me too! I misjudged, taco'ed the front wheel, 2 black eyes and a smashed helmet. Without helmet would have been VERY bad.
@cleverogre a full face one saved my cousin on a motorcycle. He took a gravel corner too fast and went flying. The helmet needed cut off his head it was so bent up. All he did was bust his collarbone, have a concussion and gravel embedded in his skin. I doubt he would have had an intact skull without a helmet.
I started collecting, rebuilding and selling mini bikes last year. The first thing I bought when I started riding was a helmet. Sure, they only go about 30 MPH, but that's fast enough to kill you. Besides, I don't want to mess up this handsome mug by kissing the pavement at that speed.
It always drives me crazy to see skateboarders and bike riders that choose not to wear one, especially while doing stunts or tricks. Is it because someone might think their helmet is uncool?
still have my whole pretty face thanks to a full face helmet! Not sure why people ride motorcycles with 1/2, 3/4, skull caps, I low sided my bike in a corner on some oil and slid on my "face" for 20ft, if I didn't have it covered it would have smacked the pavement and been dragged along.
I'm a cyclist. I was in a wreck where I went down head first at 40mph... escaped with a concussion. Was involved in a deliberate hit & run as I was riding fully within the law on a bike route. Escaped with concussion, bicycle was destroyed. The one that takes the cake, though, was when high winds forced me off the highest paved road in N. America (Mount Evans). I fell 30 vertical feet (more horizontal), with the bicycle going over 40mph, and landed on granite boulders. 9 spine fractures in my neck and upper back (including the top two vertebrae, which, had they been displaced, would have killed me within minutes), shattered rib cage (both sides, front and back), shattered scapula, bruised liver, both lungs punctured, and my left kidney and spleen mangled almost beyond saving. My head escaped with a severe concussion. I was in ICU 10 days, in hospital a month, not counting the 4 subsequent spine surgeries and complications.
Will a helmet prevent all head injuries? no. They have limits. Yet I've been in wrecks that far exceeded those limits, and I'm alive. Even when those limits are exceeded, damage to the head is reduced. They won't prevent concussion, but wearing a helmet reduces the risk of death by 80% or more. Say what you will against them, but I began wearing helmets as a teenager. I'm 40 now, and am convinced I'd never have made it this far were it not for helmets that protected me on 5 different occasions, the worst three being those I've mentioned.
At the same time, I also might be far worse off if it hadn't been for my cycling, for I have an immune deficiency that generally leads to death from damage to the lungs. I can't run anymore because of knee injury. My bicycle was my chosen sole transportation (until the accident on the mountain) and kept my lungs healthy, though, which gives me a good chance of being far on the far side of the average lifespan of 43 years.
@Kidsandliz I have chronic pain, and only two vertebrae in my neck remain mobile- and those two were damaged in the wreck. Ten total are fused now. I also get some numbness in my hands when the nerves are stretched, like when driving. Considering the amount of damage, though, it's a miracle it's not worse than that. I'm cognitively intact, and I have regained the use of my left hand via my own methods... playing music on my Casio keyboard. I also now have a puppy, who is being trained as a service dog to help with some of my PT and to help carry loads, since carrying much weight for very long tends to aggravate things... and he's also being trained to help with some PTSD issues I now have. He'll also help keep me from my habit of isolating myself. It was actually the sale of a snowblower I got in a Woot BOC that helped pay for him! I've yet to get a Meh Fukubuku, but it was 8 years before I got my first Woot one.
I remember low-siding my motorcycle, hearing the helmet grind along the pavement right by my ear, and thinking that I was glad I had the helmet on, because otherwise it would have been my ear grinding along on the ground.
no joke. a helmet has saved me more than once.
@cleverogre Yeppers, helmet saved me while cycling... hit and run. I was flying in the air 30 feet and rolled another 30 feet and got up screaming! Bicycle was a total loss I wasn't! Next day and for a couple weeks crazy sore but helmet saved my head. btw looks like that guy should have been wearing his helmet more forward! Many wear helmets too loose and they don't protect the forehead.
@fjp999 cycling (off-road) for me too! I misjudged, taco'ed the front wheel, 2 black eyes and a smashed helmet. Without helmet would have been VERY bad.
@cleverogre a full face one saved my cousin on a motorcycle. He took a gravel corner too fast and went flying. The helmet needed cut off his head it was so bent up. All he did was bust his collarbone, have a concussion and gravel embedded in his skin. I doubt he would have had an intact skull without a helmet.
They make you look special too!
I started collecting, rebuilding and selling mini bikes last year. The first thing I bought when I started riding was a helmet. Sure, they only go about 30 MPH, but that's fast enough to kill you. Besides, I don't want to mess up this handsome mug by kissing the pavement at that speed.
It always drives me crazy to see skateboarders and bike riders that choose not to wear one, especially while doing stunts or tricks. Is it because someone might think their helmet is uncool?
still have my whole pretty face thanks to a full face helmet! Not sure why people ride motorcycles with 1/2, 3/4, skull caps, I low sided my bike in a corner on some oil and slid on my "face" for 20ft, if I didn't have it covered it would have smacked the pavement and been dragged along.
I'm a cyclist. I was in a wreck where I went down head first at 40mph... escaped with a concussion. Was involved in a deliberate hit & run as I was riding fully within the law on a bike route. Escaped with concussion, bicycle was destroyed. The one that takes the cake, though, was when high winds forced me off the highest paved road in N. America (Mount Evans). I fell 30 vertical feet (more horizontal), with the bicycle going over 40mph, and landed on granite boulders. 9 spine fractures in my neck and upper back (including the top two vertebrae, which, had they been displaced, would have killed me within minutes), shattered rib cage (both sides, front and back), shattered scapula, bruised liver, both lungs punctured, and my left kidney and spleen mangled almost beyond saving. My head escaped with a severe concussion. I was in ICU 10 days, in hospital a month, not counting the 4 subsequent spine surgeries and complications.
Will a helmet prevent all head injuries? no. They have limits. Yet I've been in wrecks that far exceeded those limits, and I'm alive. Even when those limits are exceeded, damage to the head is reduced. They won't prevent concussion, but wearing a helmet reduces the risk of death by 80% or more. Say what you will against them, but I began wearing helmets as a teenager. I'm 40 now, and am convinced I'd never have made it this far were it not for helmets that protected me on 5 different occasions, the worst three being those I've mentioned.
At the same time, I also might be far worse off if it hadn't been for my cycling, for I have an immune deficiency that generally leads to death from damage to the lungs. I can't run anymore because of knee injury. My bicycle was my chosen sole transportation (until the accident on the mountain) and kept my lungs healthy, though, which gives me a good chance of being far on the far side of the average lifespan of 43 years.
This was filmed nearly a year after my accident (but I'd only had one of my 4 spine surgeries by then). Avid Cyclist: "My Helmet Saved my Life"
@CircaRigel YIKES!! I hope you don't have too much residual pain and problems from that.
@Kidsandliz I have chronic pain, and only two vertebrae in my neck remain mobile- and those two were damaged in the wreck. Ten total are fused now. I also get some numbness in my hands when the nerves are stretched, like when driving. Considering the amount of damage, though, it's a miracle it's not worse than that. I'm cognitively intact, and I have regained the use of my left hand via my own methods... playing music on my Casio keyboard. I also now have a puppy, who is being trained as a service dog to help with some of my PT and to help carry loads, since carrying much weight for very long tends to aggravate things... and he's also being trained to help with some PTSD issues I now have. He'll also help keep me from my habit of isolating myself. It was actually the sale of a snowblower I got in a Woot BOC that helped pay for him! I've yet to get a Meh Fukubuku, but it was 8 years before I got my first Woot one.
I remember low-siding my motorcycle, hearing the helmet grind along the pavement right by my ear, and thinking that I was glad I had the helmet on, because otherwise it would have been my ear grinding along on the ground.